NLM Musings from the Mezzanine
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Multiple sclerosis often causes falls, leading to pain, injury, and insecurity. Dr. Riley Bove and her research team, with the support of NLM, developed the mobile app MS-FIT. MS-FIT tracks falls, analyzes health data, and may help clinicians provide personalized strategies to prevent falls.
Women have historically been excluded from biomedical research, but recent initiatives and funding commitments aim to change this. NIH has released a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) for interdisciplinary research that addresses conditions affecting women. Check out NLM's funding opportunities!
Forecasting policy needs is challenging due to rapid technological advances. NIH’s Data Management and Sharing Policy includes flexibility for evolving tools like artificial intelligence (AI), which enhances research but requires responsible use. Learn more about how NIH provides resources to ensure AI research adheres to existing policies and plans to update guidelines as technology progresses.
Ariah Long joined the NLM Associate Fellowship Program, a one-year residency program for career librarians, to grow as a biomedical librarian and advance equity and innovation. As she approaches the end of her internship, she shares the opportunities NLM offers to students at every stage of their education.
The African Journal Partnership Program—supported by NLM and the NIH Fogarty International Center—collaborates with African journal editors to promote worldwide dissemination of their journals. See how AJPP improves the visibility and quality of African research for equitable health promotion and disease prevention.
NLM funds grants related to both Clinical Informatics Research and Clinical Research Informatics—two fields that sound similar but are distinct in the ways they contribute to advancing health care delivery and patient outcomes. NLM’s Dr. Allison Dennis discusses how these concepts relate and how researchers can apply to related funding opportunities.
Can original data repositories, system architectures, and web interfaces last "to infinity and beyond"? Not quite, but NLM is meeting the challenge to flexibly adapt to data growth, fulfill high usage demands, and provide more responsive user services. Learn how NLM has been adopting these strategies to keep our offerings innovative.
Parents are their baby’s first and best teachers, and for Hispanic families, teaching bilingualism not only supports early brain development, it can also encourage pride in being Hispanic and speaking Spanish. Háblame Bebé is a free app that has been enormously successful in connecting with hard-to-reach families and changing conceptions about bilingualism.
Open Access Week raises awareness of open access, fosters discussions about open scholarship, and encourages new ways to promote knowledge sharing. In honor of Open Access Week, let’s dive into some of the ways that NLM supports open access all year long!
"You might be thinking that providing access to research products and processes sounds a lot like what NLM does," writes Dr. Lisa Federer in this week's blog, "and you’d be right!" Learn how NLM advances open science, a concept at the heart of what NLM has been doing since its founding nearly 200 years ago.